Gordon Kenyon

“Grumph let out a harrumph, which indicated either that he was unharmed and waiting patiently for a new opportunity to arise, or that a sparrow had shit in his porridge.”
― Drew Hayes, NPCs

“Their cherub threw another handful of confetti over them; some of it landed in the last cold dregs of coffee Harry had been about to drink.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“How are you doing that?” demanded Hermione, who was red-faced and whose hair was growing bushier and bushier in the fumes from her cauldron; her potion was still resolutely purple. “Add a clockwise stir —” “No, no, the book says counterclockwise!” she snapped.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Simple organisms like bacteria tend more to the Airfix way of life. Their genes are fairly set, coding for just one protein. The more complex an organism becomes, the more the genome begins to resemble LEGO, with a much greater degree of flexibility in how the components are used. And when we think how extraordinary we humans are, it seems reasonable to say, in a nod to certain movie, that at the genetic level 'everything is awesome'.”
― Nessa Carey